All Change at Bentley and Bugatti

Only 17 months into his tenure as boss of both Bentley and Bugatti, as well as heading up VW motorsport, 53-year-old Wolfgang Dürheimer is leaving to take the role as board member responsible for technical development at Audi.

In part of an extensive management reshuffle within the Volkswagen Group he is being replaced on September 1st by Dr Wolfgang Schreiber (54), currently ceo of Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

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Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber

An engineering graduate, Schreiber joined the Volkswagen Group in 1984. He was made head of transmission and drive train development for the Volkswagen brand in 1996. His responsibility during that time included the development of transmission and drive train components for the Bentley Continental GT and Arnage.

He moved to Bugatti Engineering in 2003 to take up the post of technical director and, later, managing director of the company over the next eight years. Schreiber has been the member of the board of management of Volkswagen commercial vehicles responsible for development since September 2006 and additionally was made speaker for the board of management in February 2010.